Bastian Gruber
Staff Software Engineer at Manning Publications Co.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBastian Gruber is a Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years of hands-on experience designing and shipping high-performance backend systems, currently delivering Rust, C++, and Python code to hundreds of millions of Firefox users at Mozilla. He authored "Rust Web Development" and helped found Rust&Tell Berlin, reflecting a deep commitment to Rust adoption and community building beyond day-to-day engineering. His work spans distributed systems, privacy-preserving protocols (OHTTP), multi-language bindings (UniFFI), and high-throughput P2P networks, combining pragmatic architecture decisions with low-level performance tuning. Bastian moves fluidly between product-facing services and core platform work, having rebuilt critical infrastructure in Rust at companies like Kraken and Toposware. Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he also contributes to technical education internally (Rusty Fridays) and externally through books and meetups, often surfacing practical migration paths for teams adopting Rust.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Technische Hochschule IngolstadtA level, Mathematics, Physics, German, A level, Mathematics, Physics, German at Staatliche Berufsoberschule Weißenburg i.Bay.
German, English
Github Skills (200)
nouislider10
centrifuge10
garbage-collection10
rust-language10
rust-lang10
thunderbird10
system-programming10
mozilla-firefox10
chain10
firefox10
compiler10
rust10
directive10
crate10
documentation10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
gruberb/centrifuge-chain
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Implementation of the Centrifuge Chain
Contributions:215 pushes, 22 branches in 4 months
chainblockchaincentrifuge
Rust-Web-Development/website
Jun 2021 - Jun 2024
Website to the book
Contributions:1 PR, 47 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
rust
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